The fundamental principle of meaningful comparative analysis of corruption featuring cross-national
survey data is that countries are equally represented across time. Yet, since 1989,
this principle has been consistently ...

The following study addresses the problem of predicting the respondents' survey preferences
when implementing a mixed-mode survey design. Most previous experimental research
implies that offering respondents the choice ...

The paper discusses the role of pre-testing in consecutive waves of a panel survey,
investigating how attitudes and opinions change over long periods of time. On one hand,
accounting for this change requires that the ...

Whereas economic grievance and the political opportunity structure could be the basis for
understanding Ukrainian youth political participation and institutional trust, to date, no one
has systematically applied the ...

Uncertainty together with the necessity of making choices inevitably results in risky
decisions. For many years now, scientists have been studying notions connected with risk
such as risk management, risk perception or ...

Face-to-face surveys of the general population often start with a probability sample of the households or addresses. However, even if a probability sample of households or addresses has been drawn, random selection of the ...

The aim of this study is the validation of the Russian version of the Schwartz Value Survey (SVS) using qualitative (cognitive interviewing) and quantitative (multidimensional scaling, confirmatory factor analysis) methods. ...

This article presents a new approach to the comparison of the meaning of social or political key terms in different national contexts. Instead of relying on classical statistical instruments such as t-tests of the mean ...

This article examines the relation between well-being and fertility intentions in Europe and addresses three main research questions: Does overall well-being influence fertility intentions? What kind of well-being factors ...

Publishing and preserving detailed information about candidates running for public offi ce
is a form of accountability and a precondition for the production of reliable academic
knowledge about electoral and partisan ...

Left-right self-placement on a unidimensional scale is a standard question in many social and political surveys to measure respondents' ideological orientation in a minimalist way.Although the left-right scale is a standard ...

Poland has witnessed a rise in cross-border migration from both within the European
Union and from regions around the world. A demographic consequence is biracial families
in Poland. A social consequence is that in ...

Ask: Research and Methods is an open access, peer-reviewed academic journal devoted
to the methodology of social science research. ASK was first published in 1995 by the
Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish ...